towards a privatization of garbage collection?
Last January, rubbish piled up in the streets of Toulouse. The reason ? A hard strike led by the inter-union FO, CGT, FA-FPT, FSU, Solidaires Sud and Unsa. Thus, the social movement will have lasted 29 days. At the end of long negotiations, an agreement after the end of the “finished party” imposed by the Law of transformation of the public service had been found. The waste collection agents then gradually resumed work in mid-January.
Towards a privatization of collections in Toulouse?
The idea of entrusting part of the massage in Toulouse is a priori still not abandoned. It has just resurfaced four months after the end of the movement and vice versa no longer required the depot of L’Union, north of Toulouse, which covers, among others, the municipalities of Balma, Castelginest or even Launaguet.
In this sector, we are faced with unfinished or almost unfinished rounds. We cannot be told about the calibration of the rounds, because some have been carried out and since the reform, the management works very well in all the other depots. There are components that have asked the question and I have asked the services of Toulouse Métropole to study the elimination of a public contract to delegate it to the private sector”, explains Vincent Terrail-Novés, vice-president in charge of waste. and cleanliness, in comments reported by our colleagues from 20 minutes Toulouse.
For the moment, it is far from being done and the chosen one hopes “a reaction” from the agents. But he does not hide being, already, satisfied with the work of the private company which operates the collection in Saint-Orens or Quint-Fonsegrives.
Toulouse trade unionists are indignant
The privatization of garbage collection is obviously not to the liking of Toulouse trade unionists. “If the subject were to become clearer or if the community were to re-examine the project, the FO union would not fail to strongly oppose”, explains Nicolas Refutin, representative of territorial FOs.
The agents directly concerned by this privatization are considering sending an open letter to the vice-president to respond point by point to his grievances against the Union deposit.
At the Union, it is a structural problem, they have added municipalities to their rounds, without increasing the means and since the reform, the working time has increased. So they can’t finish. They want to privatize, because it’s their policy and they start with L’Union because in the event of a strike it won’t bother Toulouse,” castigated Benoît Fontanilles of the independent FAFPT union.
Case to follow.